It’s no secret that the NES Classic Edition is one of the year’s — and certainly Christmas’ — most popular items.

Sold out pretty much everywhere it’s gone on sale, clamouring fans are losing hope they’ll get their hands on the refined retro console ahead of Christmas.

Certainly, Nintendo has struggled to meet demand, although it’s been a great means of drumming up hype around the device, just as the company prepares to launch the Nintendo Switch in March 2017.

The Wii U has been dead and irrelevant for a long time now, but the NES Classic Edition, along with the likes of Pokemon Sun and Moonand Super Mario Run,have helped keep the company in the headlines.

Interestingly, despite a large portion of the demanding public failing to get their hands on it, the NES Classic Edition has done mightily fine on the sales front for Nintendo, and it’s managed to knock down a rather impressive milestone in the process.

The system — which houses 30 classic NES games on an internal drive — may just be the hottest Christmas gift this busy holiday season, which goes to show just how relevant Nintendo still is (not that anyone doubted it).

That the company can release something of this nature and generate such hype, discussion and — as a product of low supply — frustration goes to show just how much power they still have over the masses.

Gaetano Prestia Editor in Chief

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Yeah that’s what happens when you only release a small number of units at a time, it creates a demand… Bet the numbers wouldn’t be nowhere near the same if it was just an easy grab off the shelf and buy console.